Hello there! Hope my question fits in this section!
So I have received a pdf document (a planner) with 156 pages of which 18 needs to be completely changed.
I have no indesign file for this specific file, although some of those 18 pages could be transferred form another planner that I have the indesign file.
My question is - what would you do in this situation? Should I make an indesign document with 156 pages and place each page of the pdf inside the document? Or maybe I could make those 18 pages and somehow put in the pdf??
Asking for indesign or any other type of document for this project isnāt an option since those project files doesnāt exist anymore.
This is the approach Iād take. Create the new pages in ID, export them as a PDF, open up the original PDF in Acrobat, replace the pages with the new pages.
This is a decision for the client to make. Explain that, without the native file, you have to recreate from scratch, which is going to cost him X dollars. If he agrees to that, well, great. Itās also a good incentive for him to track the original file.
There is a script that comes with indesign that allows you to import the PDF into indesign. automatically. Would take less than 10 minutes to import them. Then you could copy and paste the 18 pages into the new indesign file.
You need to create a one page document to the size of the pdf being imported unless itās 8.5 x 11 I think it defaults to that size.
It is in the java scripts and it is called importmultipagepdf or something very similar. I donāt have access to my Mac right now.
Like Billyjean said, project was probably finished a year ago.
Itās called āPlace Multipage PDF.ā The question is whether or not you can edit them once they are placed. Iām fairly certain the answer to that is āno.ā
Recently, I decided to quiet down my praise for Affinityās products because I was starting to sound like an advocate for them.
The Adobe CC apps are obviously further along and have features that are frustratingly missing in the Affinity products. Thereās no way Iāll be dropping my CC subscription (yet). What is there, though, works quite nicely. For relatively inexpensive software that seemingly came out of nowhere, Affinity Designer, Publisher and Photo really are pretty good with most everything thatās really needed
In a few ways the Affinity apps even surpass whatās available in Adobeās software. The ability to simply open PDFs and work on them in Publisher as native Publisher or Designer files is one of them. Either application will open big multi-page PDFs with everything in place and totally workable ā almost as if they were built in the Affinity apps to begin with. There are a few glitches here and there, and much depends on how the PDF was saved, but in general, itās pretty slick.